Rochester Engineering Society Magazine June 2022

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June 2022 Also in this issue:  Thank You: Sponsors of the RES Annual Meeting

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 RES Program - June 29

 RES Program: New Developments Downtown with Walking Tour & Social Hour - Thurs., July 21

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 Student Feature: Compressing Naural Networks Towards Edge Artificial Intelligence

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 Student Feature: Adapting Smart Garments to Observe Respitory Behavior with Tobacco Use

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RES NEWS (Highlighted in Blue)

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Corporate Members of the RES RES Board of Directors RES President's Messages (Gdowski & Sommerman) RES Program - June 29 RES Program - New Developments Downtown with

Walking Tour & Social Hour - Thurs., July 21st

RES Annual Meeting - Thank You Sponsors RES Technical Corner by Brett Eliasz, PE RES History - September - October 1975 Dr. Walter Cooper Academy, Enduring the Pandemic...

Get IT Done - IT is in Space!

MKS Instruments - pushing the boundaries of possibilities Up & Coming Engineer: Meet Madeline Cotter Student Feature: Compressing Neural Networks

Towards Edge Artifical Intelligence 22 Student Feature: Adapting Smart Garments to Observe Respitory Behavior Associated with Tobacco Use

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Professional Firms Employee News Position Openings Continuing Education Opportunities (PDHs) Engineers’ Calendar Directory of Professional Services Directory of Business Services Affiliated Societies of the RES

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• ABCD Association for Bridge Design and Construction.................................. 39 • ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers.............. 30 • ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers....................... 40 • ASPE American Society of Plumbing Engineers...... 42 • EA Electrical Association......................................... 28 • GVLSA Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association.38 • IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers......................................... 32 • IES Illuminating Engineering Society...................... 37 • INCOSE International Council on Systems Engineering..................................... 29 • MPES Monroe Professional Engineers Society........ 36 • RES Rochester Engineering Society.................... 2-11 • TERRA TERRA Science & Engineering Fair................. 41

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The Rochester Engineer Published since 1922 by ROCHESTER ENGINEERING SOCIETY, INC.

Founded March 18, 1897

Board of Directors: OFFICERS: President MICHELLE SOMMERMAN, PE Bergmann Associates / msommerman@bergmannpc.com

First Vice President DENNIS ROOTE, PE CDE Engineering & Environment, PLLC / dennis.roote@cde-pllc.com

Second Vice President MIKE KURDZIEL, PhD Harris Corporation / mike.kurdziel@L3harris.com

Treasurer TBD - Dennis Roote is interim treasurer.

President GREG GDOWSKI, PhD University of Rochsester / Greg_Gdowski@urmc.rochester.edu

EIGHT DIRECTORS:

CORNELIUS (NEAL) ILLENBERG PE Rail Safety Consulting / nillenberg@aol.com

RICHARD E. RICE Erdman Anthony / rricesquash@gmail.com

BRETT ELIASZ, PE Bergmann Associates / beliasz@bergmannpc.com

KENTON G. HINES Merrill Lynch / Kenton.Hines@ml.com

MICHAEL DUFFY .

Bosch Security Systems, LLC / michael.duffy@us.bosch.com

STEVEN W. DAY, PhD Rochester Institute of Technology / swdeme@rit.edu

NOAH KELLY Leadership Excellence & Development Program (Engr.), Alstom noah.kelly@alstomgroup.com

LEANDRO AVEIRO Engineering Group Manager - Verification & Validation, Alstom leandro.aveiro@alstomgroup.com

Administrative Director LYNNE M. IRWIN Rochester Engineering Society / e-mail: res@frontiernet.net or therochesterengineer@gmail.com

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Volume 101, Number 1, JUNE 2022 (Electronic Copies Only) You can purchase individual printed copies directly from ISSUU. 2,500+ Monthly Circulation (11 issues electronically) ISSN 0035-7405

RES Mission Statement: The RES will become the lead organization for improving the image and influence of the engineering community in the greater Rochester area by: Demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge of the region’s engineering and technical capabilities; Providing the best clerical support and public relations assistance to our affiliates; Continually communicating the engineering and technical accomplishments to both the engineering and technical community and the public; Providing regular forums and networking opportunities for the exchange of ideas and discussion of issues; and, Providing programs that identify career opportunities to the region’s youth and develop the skills of the practicing engineer.

News items and articles are invited. Materials should be submitted to the administrative director at the society’s office, 657 East Avenue, Rochester, New York 14607; Phone number (585) 254-2350, e-mail: therochesterengineer@gmail.com.

The web site for the RES is: www.roceng.org.

The deadline is the 10th day of the month prior to the issue. Unless otherwise stated, opinions expressed in this publication are those of contributors, not of the Rochester Engineering Society, Inc. Advertising information may be obtained by contacting the office of the Rochester Engineering Society or going to the website at www.roceng.org.

Published every month but July. You can purchase individual copies directly from ISSUU. Go to www.roceng.org to join the Rochester Engineering Society. Click on the individual membership and you can submit your application on-line. res news - board of directors

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RES News - President's Message Dear Fellow Engineers, I echo Greg from 2 years ago…I am honored to be taking on this role and am fortunate to have an extremely talented set of officers, board members and committee chairs in navigating RES forward thru 2024! Kudos to Greg for navigating RES through the past two years… they’ve been a doozy! People often ask me…

What is RES? At its core, RES serves the engineering community in Rochester. RES is here to increase the visibility of the greater Rochester area engineering and technical community, serving as a unifying organization for local engineering businesses and associations.

I like to break things down so here is the WHAT, WHO and HOW of RES: WHAT does RES do?

• enhance professional development • foster excitement in math and science for the next generation of leaders • improve communities where members live.

WHO do we do it for?

• individual engineers • local affiliates of national engineering societies • schools of engineering • professional firms HOW do we do it?

• Opportunities to learn • Opportunities to build relationships • Opportunities to contribute to the community Our activities will support the HOW for all members. I look forward to the year ahead for RES and all we can do together!

All my best,

Michelle Sommerman, PE Bergmann RES President June 1, 2022 - May 31, 2024 res news - president’s messages

Dear Colleagues: There are a few times in life when bad things happen at the worst time.

On May 25th, I woke up with a pain on my right-side equivalent to nothing I have previously experienced. I was later admitted into Strong Memorial Hospital. The source of all this pain was literally a 4mm kidney stone that would take three days to pass. That was no typo. A 4mm pebble in the wrong place that caused pain at a level that I described as 9 out of 10.

You might ask, “what would it have taken to score it a 10?” I rarely give students a 100 on presentations, so why should I be any different? In retrospect, I wonder if a 10/10 score might have helped me to escape a 6hr delightful experience in the ER waiting room without pain medications.

There were times during that experience when I thought passing out might just be beneficial. While it all worked out thankfully, it was what this disrupted that probably amplified my pain beyond a 10.

Timing is everything. This episode started only 6 hours before my last RES Board meeting as President. More importantly it was only about 32 hours before the RES Annual meeting. At 9am I drafted one of the shortest, most laconic emails I have ever written to Lynne Irwin and Michelle Sommerman.

Subject: “woke up very sick.” Content: “Going to urgent care.” The later messages would be as laconic. I can only imagine being on the receiving end of those emails. I knew I was going to miss the Annual meeting. I only crafted 4 emails that day and all of them were sent to Lynne and Michelle.

I’m not sure which pain hurt more. Yes, that is how my 2-year term as President of the RES ended.

We all like to think that what we do is critically important. I learned a valuable lesson on my last days as President of the RES. A quote from John Maxwell is very appropriate, “You’re only as good as the people you have around you.” I had the pleasure of watching the recorded video of the Annual meeting after the dust had settled. The poise, professionalism, and execution of the Annual meeting was done so transparently in my absence that it literally brought me to tears. I know what had to have transpired to pull that off within two days of the meeting. I could not have been prouder of the entire team. This is a heartfelt thank you to all that were involved.

What you did meant a lot to me, more importantly it helped the community to celebrate the recipients of the scholarships and professional awards.

This experience will be something I will never forget.

This is not a farewell message. It is just the wonderful transition to the beginning of a new leadership that is well-seasoned beyond all those that have preceded them. The RES is well-positioned to help the community emerge from the era of Tron-like virtual zoom meetings back to inperson meetings. We have a great group of leaders including Michelle Sommerman (President), Dennis Roote (1st Vice President) and Mike Kurdziel (2nd Vice President). Michelle has run the scholarship program for several years like a well-oiled machine. She is determined, meticulous, well-organized and will bring a renewed energy for in-person meetings.

Dennis spearheaded the efforts for developing pdh courses and has also managed the role of Treasurer. Mike has helped on the Executive Committee and Web Committee. He has also served as the critical connection to L3Harris as one of our Enterprise members. With their leadership, the RES is certain to have impact among the local engineering community over the next two years. I look forward to helping them and the entire Board as the Past President of the RES! All my best, Greg Gdowski, PhD Immediate Past President of the RES JUNE 2022 The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | 5

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RES PROGRAM

Join the RES for Happy hour to kick-off the summer at the…

Exchange Sports Bar 251 Exchange Blvd Rochester, NY 14608

Wednesday, June 29, 2020 at 5:00 pm

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RES PROGRAM, WALKING TOUR & HAPPY HOUR

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New Developments Downtown with Walking Tour & Social Hour Thursday, July 21, 2022 Join the RES and learn about some exciting new developments downtown. Take a walking tour of the Neighborhood of Play and join us for a social hour after the tour.

Time: 3:00 pm to ~5:00 pm

~5:00 pm

Registration:

Presentation & Walking Tour Happy Hour with Cash Bar at Roc Brewing Co., 56 South Union Street, Rochester, NY 14607

Required - on the RES Website at www.roceng.org

We will meet at The Strong in the Paychex Theater. There are two guest speakers. Dana Miller, Commissioner, Department of Neighborhood and Business Development for the City of Rochester will discuss downtown development. Steve Dubnik, President & CEO of The Strong will tell us the current expansion plans for the museum.

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The current projects under construction; Recently completed projects in the Neighborhood of Play; and, The "new" Union Street

If you have not seen what has become of the old Inner Loop, here is your chance.

You must register for this event. The cost (including the parking garage at The Strong, 1 Manhattan Square Drive, Rochester, NY 14607) is free.

We reserve the right to limit attendance based on the theater and tour capacity. There will be no PDH's for this tour/social. res news - program and walking tour

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Thank You To RES Annual Meeting Sponsor

Thank you L3Harris for being a Platinum Sponsor of the RES Annual Meeting The RES held its first in-person event on Thursday, May 26th in the Bausch Auditorium at the RMSC. We enjoyed hors' d'oeuvres, cash bar, and especially seeing everyone inperson. Because of the cancellation of the Gala again this year we decided to announce our scholarship awards and annual engineering awards at this event. Incoming President Michelle Sommerman, PE presided the annual meeting and with the help of Past President Neal Illenberg, PE, and awards chairman, presented the 14 awards. Here are a few candid photos taken by Mike Kurdziel, PhD. A recording on zoom of this meeting will be available on the RES website soon. (www.roceng.org).

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Incoming President Michelle Sommerman, PE presiding at the RES Annual meeting.

2021 RES Engineer of the Year John W. Nieto receiving a Dick Kane painting

2021 RES Kate Gleason Young Engineer of the Year Andrew White, PhD receiving his award

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RES - Technical Corner

Technical Corner For the Electrical article this month I’d like to share a pretty basic way of thinking I fall back on quite often when completing Arc Flash, Short Circuit and Coordination Studies.

My way of thinking relates to a rating system which I see at some big box retail stores. They tend to stick to the terms “good, better and best”.

For many of the Electrical folks out there performing these studies, they know it is quite often just not feasible to obtain every piece of information in an existing electrical system.

For example: Sometimes, we might have to go from design documents to determine a cable size, which is “good”, but what if the cable has changed throughout the construction process..? Perhaps we actually have as-builts from a contractor which would be “better”, with “best” being a full shut down to get eyes on the cable size actually installed.

Three (3) other characteristics of an electrical system come to mind from IEEE 1584-2018, which is the standard used to complete these calculations: Electrode Configuration, Enclosure Dimensions and Conductor Gap. Think about a typical electrical panel board…is the bussing vertical…? Depends…Open and look…

What is the dimension of the enclosure?...is there a standard…? Somewhat…measure it…

Conductor Gap?...is there a standard…? Not really…measure it…dangerous to obtain…?

I know that the software today does automatically make assumptions for these characteristics. Of course, it gives you the ability to modify them as needed. But you must make sure you select the latest version of IEEE 1584.

If we were to include the assumptions the software makes in our analysis, then I think that would put the results in a “good” category. Perhaps if we field verified some of them and made assumptions on the others then we would have a “better” result and then of course the “best” way is to field verify all three of these characteristics.

To offer some direction with this article I do believe that the most significant characteristic is the electrode configuration, followed by the enclosure dimensions and finally the conductor gap.

Again, just be sure to gather and model as much information as you can to achieve the most accurate results!

Hopefully this article finds you well and can be used as a reference for your project needs.

If anyone would like to contribute to the Rochester Engineer and add an article or would like to requestinformation on a specific topic (not limited to Electrical) just email me at beliasz@bergmannpc.com. As always, any comments are appreciated…! Thank you for reading.

Brett Eliasz, P.E., LEED AP BD+C , RES Director res - technical corner

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RES News - Rochester History

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A Sampling from the Archives of the Rochester Engineering Society.

1897 - 1975

by Lee M. Loomis Continuing with the historical sampling of the earlier writings on behalf of the Rochester Engineering Society, the years following "The Great War", into and through the “Great Depression”, continued to be a time of reaching out for the maturing Society, both locally and nationally. The meeting minutes describe a series of technical discussions and presentations intended to broaden the technical horizons of the membership (especially the CE's, ME's and EE's). The RES affiliated itself with a number of National technical societies, adopted local Affiliated Societies, frequently held joint meetings with them and continued taking action on a growing list of public matters. Certain issues of standardization, some crucial to public safety, became the responsibility of the RES and its affiliates. In the pervasive economic downturn of the “Great Depression”, the magazine offered classified advertising for unemployed engineers, technicians and draftsmen and took other steps to try to deal with the crisis. Still, it continued its effort to shape the function, focus and infrastructure of the City of Rochester, and beyond. World War, again affected the Society, taking away many of its leaders while providing opportunities for others to step forward to fill these vacancies. In an effort to provide even greater perspective on the happenings and concerns of the day, a synopsis, featuring selected items from The Rochester Engineer has become an integral part of this series. The Second World War, the Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam War are now history. These experiences have changed the face of and will, no doubt, influence the future of the community. The Rochester municipal leadership and the industrial community have become immersed in the cold-war, growth economy.

September 17, 1975 (Board Meeting, Chamber of Commerce) As part of his Treasurer’s report, Howard Jaquith expressed concern for the growing deficit due to The Rochester Engineer. He proposed reducing some of the mailing expenses of the magazine, and he announced that he would present a 10 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER JUNE 2022

proposal, with alternatives, for managing the Kate Gleason Fund, at the next Board meeting.

The Board approved seventeen new applications for Regular Membership, along with one Junior Membership and one Student Membership. RES Director, Ludwig Boehringer, announced that beginning with this meeting he would be bringing a senior officer of an RES Affiliate, as a guest, to each RES Board meeting. Lee Loomis, Chair of the Engineers' Week Committee, announced that he had begun searching for a Principal Speaker for the February 1976 dinner. RES Director, John Robertson, introduced Earl Svendsen as the new Chair of the RES Luncheon Committee, and announced that a return to a two meetings per month format was underway. Luncheon speakers for the next three luncheons included Monroe County Director of Planning, Don Martin, WHEC Meteorologist, John Hambleton, and gliding and soaring expert, Edgar Seymour.

The Board approved the expenditure of $213 for advertising the RES “Technical Skills Bank” in Andrew Wolfe’s two newspapers, City East and City West.

“The Rochester Engineer” (September 1975) “Genesee Valley People’s Power Coalition vs. Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation”

by Edgar S. Farrar, a community activist, was a six-page critique on the current protocol, and reasoning, for NY State utilities (not just RG&E) to seek and justify electric rate increases. Mr. Farrar contended that the organization of which he was a member (GVPPC) had been recently established (in 1974) to address concerns for, “energy res news - history

conservation, affordable utility rates, equitable rate structures, responsive elected officials and regulatory agencies, safe and clean alternative energy sources, and community control of utility services.” Along with strong criticism of utility profit motivation, growth rate projections and electric rate structure, this article offered recommendations for remedies to current rate structure that would encourage and incentivize customers to alter their usage of electricity to times of lower demand and also to reduce their consumption of electric energy.

Further, Mr. Farrar offered suggestions for more efficient use of energy, such that excess thermal energy, generated in the production of electricity, be put to subsequent use in the heating of nearby commercial and residential buildings. (Editor’s note: The topic and tone of this article, and its subsequent re-publication in other media, would raise concerns with the RES Board of Directors.) The National Institute for the Deaf (NTID) was originally legislated into existence in 1965, and the next year, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was selected as its sponsoring institution. Students began arriving in 1968, and NTID graduated it first class in 1971. This issue of The Rochester Engineer featured a first-time advertisement, by NTID, for faculty positions in engineering technologies and pre-professional programs in engineering and computer science. Reprinted with permission from Science Magazine, this issue featured an interview with Dr. Dixy Lee Ray, former Chair of the US Atomic Energy Commission, as she resigned from her recently-appointed position as Asst. Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, after only six months under Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger. Dr. Ray shared that, despite having been told by President Ford that she would become, “the principal voice and forum of sciencerelated matters”, new funds and staff had been regularly denied, and Dr. Kissinger’s staff seemed to only want her concurrence with their views on res news - history

science and international policy. Editor’s note: In 1977, Dr. Ray became the first woman Governor of the State of Washington.

October 15, 1975 (Board Meeting, Chamber of Commerce) In a letter dated 10/01/75, RES Treasurer, Howard R. Jaquith, detailed his recommendations for improving the management of the RES Investment Account, the Kate Gleason Fund, including the employment of the professional services of a local bank. At this juncture, the value of the Fund was approximately $315,000. The Board approved the proposed budget, with the treasurer’s recommendations, and appointed James Clark, Mark Sluis and John Schickler as overseers of this process. The Board extended RES Honorary Membership to the presidents/chairmen of all RES Affiliates (32) and also approved applications for two Regular Members. The Board decided to send an official letter of protest to the Genesee Valley People’s Power Coalition regarding the use(s) to which the GVPPC was putting Edgar Farrar’s article in the September 1975 issue of The Rochester Engineer. A similar letter was sent to the Rochester Times-Union and the Democrat and Chronicle. Steps were proposed to the Board to establish copyright of the RES magazine articles and the front cover, going forward.

Subsequent articles in this series will describe the RES' continuing outreach to other technical societies as it considered its role in this and the larger community, along with more of the activities of the RES as it moved to be of greater service to its membership, especially those suffering from current economic crises, and adopted a greater role in shaping the future of the city and its environs. Noted also, will be the contributions made by RES members in the struggle to meet the challenges coming out of World War II and the Korean Conflict, as well as a hoped-for period of post-war growth and prosperity. These articles will also feature an impressive array of RES activities in support of post-war re-emergence of Rochester area industry, and the continuing prosperity of the second half of the 20th Century. We welcome your questions and comments on this series.

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RES News - Tutoring Team

Dr. Walter Cooper Academy; Enduring the Pandemic…

The School Year is well underway, but there continue to be challenges... Covid-19 vaccinations became authorized, back in November. Since then, an increasing number of resources/locations, have been urging parents to bring their children (ages 5 – 11) in for a free vaccination.

The RCSD was able to re-establish in-person learning, as January classes resumed. Through February, March, and April, in-person classes have continued. Nevertheless, the educational progress of our students was greatly hampered by these early stop/start measures, resulting from the most recent variant of the disease. Our students have been deprived of essential support during these crucial “educational moments” in their lives. Despite the recent lifting of masking requirements, the policy remains in place that the RCSD will NOT allow non-parent volunteers to enter the schools to tutor, in-person, students, some who may still have not been vaccinated.

Believing that there must be a way to return to our tutoring work…we had hoped to be launching a “Virtual RES Tutoring Team”, this Spring. However, we were told that this cannot happen in the current school year. Our teachers are finding that many of their students, having fallen behind, are in need of more intense, classroom attention. This is an overwhelming challenge which, coupled with on-going preparations for upcoming NYS Student Testing in English Language and Math, has made it impossible to create the necessary special tutoring work assignments (even if only virtual) for individual students.

Community School Site Coordinator, Michele White, advises us the there is already a large assortment of values-related books, at various grade levels, available on the internet. These books are presented in a “read aloud” format, by professional narrators. Michele feels that it would not be making good use of our RES Tutors’ time to be duplicating this effort. So, our plan for creating a team of “RES Readers” is on hold, for now.

Instead, we have begun planning for the resumption of the in-person operation of the RES Tutoring Team, in the Fall of 2022. Soon, we will be assembling a menu of teacher/student tutoring needs, developing a weekly tutoring needs schedule, and inviting our RES Tutors to volunteer for these tutoring assignments.

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Questions??? Reach out to RES Past President Lee Loomis and the RES Tutoring Team at…Rochester Engineering Society (585) 254-2350, via website: www.roceng.org, or via email: leeloomis46@gmail.com, (585) 738-3079 (mobile & text).

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IT is in Space!

Sixty-five years ago this October, the Earth shrank. While it remained 24,901 miles in circumference, to humans, it began to seem much smaller.

Human progress is often motivated by fear and, in 1957, the world was very fearful. On October 4th, 1957, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) launched the first orbital satellite; “Sputnik”. After millennia of finding safety in physical distance, the “enemy” could be overhead at any time. Therefore, our perceived safety disappeared, and the world shrank.

Ironically, the United States may have motivated the USSR’s space program when the US announced in 1955 that they would launch an “artificial satellite”. Seeing an opportunity to raise their profile on the world stage, the Soviet Union initiated a competing program. And the race was on - the Space Race.

Sputnik is the Russian word for satellite. Based on the root word “putnik” [meaning traveler], “sputnik” was coined 100 years earlier to refer to celestial bodies.

As this device was designed to orbit the Earth, “fellow traveler” seemed an appropriate moniker.

While this is an article about Information Technology (“IT”), there was surprisingly little technology in Sputnik.

It was little more than a space-based radio. Sputnik used four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses that could be heard by radio amateurs across the globe.

After just 22 days and 326 orbits of the Earth, Sputnik’s batteries died, and it fell silent. Inertia kept it orbiting for about five more weeks when it burned up reentering the atmosphere.

While there was little IT in Sputnik, the program was enabled by a mainframe computer at the USSR Academy of Sciences. At the time, IT was too big, too heavy, and too fragile to shoot into space. As with Sputnik, US missions were controlled by computers on Earth until Project Gemini, which used the first on-board computer.

Gemini carried a 39-bit computer that used magnetic tape to store programs. These instructions were manually moved from tape to memory at each phase of the mission.

Ten years ago, we used to say that smartphones were get IT done

more powerful that the multimillion-dollar computer that took us to the moon. Today, a USB-C charger has more processing power than the Apollo’s computers [comparing RAM and memory].

As technology increased terrestrially, it increased orbitally as well. Today, technology abounds in space. We have satellites that look down [military and civilian observation satellites], satellites that look up [space telescopes], navigation satellites [GPS], communications satellites [voice and video], weather satellites, and assorted military satellites with mysterious purposes. To top it off, we have also created a vacation home in space, the International Space Station.

Not all this technology remained close to home; we sent probes throughout our solar system and sent exploration vehicles to our nearest neighbors. We sent five interstellar probes: Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, and New Horizons. Our solar system is extraordinarily large; while Pluto is 3.7 billion miles from the Sun, the actual edge of our solar system is about 9 billion miles out. So far, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and Pioneer 10 are the only probes to have reached this distance. Currently, the most distant manufactured object is the Voyager 1 at 14.5 billion miles.

Regrettably, our use of space continues with little thought about what happens to these devices when they cease to function. We are surrounded by space junk that is a hazard to functioning satellites as well as to people on Earth when they occasionally fall and shower parts across the globe.

Keep an eye open for IT falling from space and…

And Think About IT!

Tony Keefe, COO, Entre Computer Services www.entrecs.com JUNE 2022 The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | 13

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MKS Instruments – pushing the boundaries of possibilities

by Dorothy Johnson, MKS Instruments MKS Instruments, Inc (NYSE: MKSI) has been pushing the boundaries of possibilities for over 60 years. Cutting edge science and engineering are starting points for us. Equally important is how we win as a team. We listen, collaborate, and solve our customer’s hardest technological challenges together. We solve together and succeed together.

MKS products improve process performance and productivity for customers in exciting fields like 5G, AI (Artificial Intelligence), Autonomous Vehicles, and Big Data. Our products measure, control, power, monitor, and analyze critical parameters of high tech electronic manufacturing. MKS Products include RF (radio frequency) power generators, vacuum products, gas delivery, plasma generation, ozone solutions, lasers, photonics, precision optics, motion, and PCB (Printed Circuit Board) laser processing systems. We primarily serve the semiconductor, advanced electronics and specialty industrial markets.

A Market Leader

MKS Power Solutions in Henrietta, NY (part of the Vacuum Solutions Division) holds the #1 position for RF Power in our markets.

We started in the 1980’s as Electronic Navigation Industries. Today our team of 180+ people produces advanced RF power delivery systems, RF matching networks, and metrology products used in laboratory, semiconductor, deposition, and flat panel industries.

These products provide energy to various thin film etching, stripping, and deposition processes for the latest generation of integrated circuits.

Fabricating semiconductor devices involves four broad processes: deposition, removal, patterning, and modification of electrical properties. MKS Power Solutions’ equipment is key to enabling all of these processes. By company estimate, MKS equipment has touched every semiconductor chip produced today.

According to Aaron Radomski, MKS Fellow, “Virtually every smart phone, laptop, tablet pc, and server computer uses 3D NAND Flash memory to store enormous amounts of images, video, music, and other critical information.

These devices could only store a fraction of the information without MKS Power Solutions’ advanced RF power technology. Our generators provide the energy that creates the plasma for etching products such as 3D NAND flash memory.”

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How 3D NAND Flash Memory is created

A high energy plasma is used to “drill” very high aspect ratio holes in the semiconductor device to create the dense vertical array of storage cells in a 3D NAND memory. The plasma drilling operation is powered by MKS RF generators capable of precisely pulsing the power from a few Watts to nearly a hundred thousand Watts in a few millionths of a second – with accuracy of better than 1%. This is an incredible engineering challenge, requiring expertise in power conversion, digital signal processing, advanced control systems, and mechanical/thermal/ materials engineering. Many of our engineers are multi-disciplined, enabling them to solve multi-physics problems.

The RF delivery system used for plasma processing is analogous to an automobile drivetrain: the “engine” is the RF generator. The RF generator creates the energy, the matching network transforms the chamber impedance to the generator impedance and the plasma absorbs the energy to modify thin films (ex. etch or deposition).

RF energy in the semiconductor process: • Breaks apart process gases to create a mix of ions, neutrons, and electrons (plasma) • Accelerates ions to a substrate to drill (or etch) deep channels or holes • Creates special chemistries for deposition of thin films

Unlocking the Future of Electronics The semiconductor industry continually faces new challenges as products become smaller, more powerful, and highly mobile. Ultra-thin layers, smaller critical dimensions, new materials, 3D structures, and the ongoing need for higher yield and productivity drive the need for tighter process measurement and control.

As semiconductor devices continue to get smaller and faster, Power Solutions needs to stay ahead of the needs of next generation manufacturing techniques.

Industry Challenges bring Engineering Opportunities

• Plasma properties must be controlled more precisely (software, hardware innovation required) • Peak RF power must increase (new power conversion and device technologies) • RF generator power density must increase to limit factory footprint (new transistor technologies, new materials for thermal management) • Reliability/Availability must be excellent (Machine Learning algorithms for health monitoring, Advanced reliability testing/modeling to ensure low downtime)

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MKS customers bring us their technological challenges and we solve them together. Per Carl Ioriatti, Director of Engineering, “Customers bring us their bleeding edge technological challenges. Through the tenacity, passion, and expertise of our Engineers, MKS Power Solutions solves our customers’ toughest problems. This ability has built strong customer trust and enables both Power Solutions and our customers to succeed. This has driven us to the number one position in our market space.”

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Matt Harrington, Engineering Manager, has grown in his 10+ years here: “The ability to grow my career and skills by focusing on the projects that interest me has kept me engaged. The complexity of the technology enables me to keep learning and growing. I like being a part of solving the customers’ most challenging problems.”

Our Engineers work in: Electronics • Power conversion (RF power amplifiers,switchmode power supplies) • Digital design (Microprocessors, Field Programmable Gate Arrays, System-on-chip) • Analog design (filters, amplifiers, sensors) Software • Control algorithms (feedback/feedforward control to obtain precise control of plasma properties) • High speed communication protocols (etherCAT, ethernet, DeviceNet, etc.)

• Digital Signal Processing (Filters, Detectors) • Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence techniques (Anomaly Detection, Pattern Recognition, Reinforcement Learning) Mechanical Design/Analysis • Multi-physics FEA (Finite Element Analysis) for thermal, mechanical, electromagnetic effects • Advanced thermal management (heat exchanger design, Computational Fluid Dynamics modeling) • Design for high reliability in high volume manufacturing (solder fatigue modeling, vibration modeling) Physics • Plasma physics: How to measure and control the plasma properties (e.g., ion energy, density) • Reliability physics: How to increase the power density/reliability under plasma conditions and stay competitive • Semiconductor device physics: How advanced electronic devices work and how they are fabricated MKS Engineers have the ability to grow at every point in their career. According to Gabrielle Gosset, Software Engineer, “As someone hired more recently, it’s been inspiring to become part of such a knowledgeable team that encourages asking questions and staying curious.”

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Company Culture

Power Solutions has the feel of a small company with the benefits of being part of a larger company.

Our projects and technology keep our employees interested and engaged. We foster an environment of collaboration, cooperation, empowerment, and ownership. We work hard together, and we want to have fun doing it. Our employees run (or walk) the Corporate Challenge, volunteer to rehab houses that MKS sponsors, play volleyball, and celebrate, together.

From food, clothing, and toy drives to donations of school supplies, MKS and our employees continually contribute to our community. From the Small Business Council’s Thanksgiving appeal, the Flower City Youth Camp, donations to Intervol for Ukrainian Relief, and donations to United Way with corporate matching, we believe in giving back.

Our goal at MKS is to Grow, Win (as a team), Innovate, Own and Celebrate our Results. We are actively growing and seeking talent in every business function and engineering discipline. We’d like to invite you to join our team. www.mksinst.com/careers q

By Dorothy Johnson, Senior Acquisition Specialist, MKS Instruments Contact: Dorothy.johnson@mksinst.com MKS Power Solutions is located at 100 Highpower Rd, Rochester, NY 14623 (585) 427-8300 cover article - mks instruments

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Meet another young engineer Madeline Cotter

by Howard Bussey Have you ever met someone who you wonder how they ever have time to sleep? Madeline Cotter, who prefers to go by Mary, a senior at Allendale-Columbia Upper School, is one such person. She’s the President of the student government, Captain of the track team, Leader of the local chapter of ProjectCSGirls, and still has time for independent research in artificial intelligence and machine learning!

Mary has entered award-winning projects in the last three Terra Rochester Finger Lakes Science and Engineering Fair, tackling very different types of problems each year.

As someone very concerned about the environment, her sophomore project was teaching a simple 4-5 layer neural network to analyze the water quality of lakes by matching Landstat data with a large data set of Secchi Disk measurements, which is a measure of turbidity. For this project, she learned to use Pandas for data cleaning and Keras for deep learning.

In her junior year, wearing her fitness device and noticing that her heart rate surged while doing her supposedly “easy run”, prompted Mary to wonder if her heart rate actually did go up, or if it was an error in the device. That led to a project on Anomaly Detection, where she compared a standard anomaly detection Cotter Watch algorithm with a newly MIT-developed neural network approach.

Among other findings, she established that the latter gave better results. This won her the opportunity to compete at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair.

This year she explored how well machines could learn to play simple games versus a programmer hard coding winning actions.

She chose 3 simple computer games: the mountain car with its simple back and forth motion, the acrobot with its swinging arms, res student feature - up & coming engineer

and the cart pole balancing with the goal of keeping the pole upright. She then used a reward structure to teach a neural network to successfully play each game and compared that solution to Cotter 3 Games one she hard coded. One lesson Mary drew from the project is that machine learning isn’t necessarily the best solution to all problems.

What all these projects do have in common is Mary’s love of coding. She first encountered programming in middle school as part of her school’s First Lego League team. Largely selftaught she began with simple block coding, then on-line lessons from Code.org, and eventually Python and other languages. Never satisfied with just replicating the given examples, Mary would see if she could make the program do something slightly differently. Once she successfully accomplished that, she would try further refinements, eventually becoming confident in writing code from scratch that would solve whatever problem she was tackling.

Her participation as a middle schooler in ProjectCSGirls was a key element in her development, and Mary is now giving back by mentoring 4th graders. While not all the girls continue, she finds it very satisfying to see mentees who are now 6th graders enthusiastically programming and engaged in STEM activities.

Overcoming the stereotype of the coder as “a dude in a basement, isolated and alone” is important in encouraging girls. In her advice on a national panel for the ProjectCSGirls Gala, Mary recommends girls pick a project that addresses some social issue but that also has an adequate amount of data associated with it to avoid being frustrated by not being able to get concrete results.

Mary is now looking forward to graduation and starting her undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia in the Fall, where she has been designated a Jefferson Scholar, a very select program. She hopes to explore her passion for both the environment and computer science. One of her dreams is returning to Rochester after graduation to work in the City’s Office of Sustainability on transportation issues, something prompted by a paper she wrote on the environmental impact of mass transit. q JUNE 2022 The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | 17

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Compressing Neural Networks Towards Edge Artificial Intelligence

by Mayur Dhanaraj and Panos P. Markopoulos In the modern technological era, artificial intelligence (AI) is ubiquitous.

Commonly used devices such as mobile phones, smart TVs, smart watches, and security surveillance cameras, among many others leverage AI in order to offer smart capabilities, revolutionizing everyday life. Some exciting and important applications of AI include self-driven cars, voice recognition, face recognition, disease diagnosis, real-time health monitoring, and enemy aircraft detection in defense, just to name a few. AI is the intersection of compute (including powerful graphical processing units (GPUs) and large storage capabilities), data (availability of large corpus of data to learn from), and algorithms to process this data and derive useful underlying patterns that enable autonomous decision making. These three pillars of AI are shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 1: The Trinity of Artificial Intelligence.

Thus, the success of AI can be attributed to the availability of large data sets, powerful computational resources, and effective data processing algorithms that enable the system to derive meaningful latent information from data, which in turn is used to make automatic decisions. Just as humans learn their surroundings through many examples and continuous reinforcement, an AI system also learns by looking at many examples of a certain object of interest and updates itself to generalize well on examples that it has not seen before.

An artificial neural network (ANN) is an example of an algorithm that learns an underlying pattern from given data and thus imparts intelligence to the AI system. Traditionally, ANNs were inspired by the neural networks in the human brain. The key idea was to mimic the human brain by recreating artificial neurons on hardware which are inter-connected just as neurons are in a human brain. Similarly, the goal was to strengthen certain connections in an artificial neural network such that it generalizes well on unforeseen data. ANNs employ many layers, each consisting of multiple neurons (nodes). These neurons collect all the connections from a previous layer and aggregate it by means of mathematical operations. This procedure is repeated for all neurons in a layer. It is empirically shown that the layers of artificial neurons are able to learn abstract representation of the data, thereby deriving useful data features, resulting in autonomous decision making. Moreover, if large datasets are available, neural networks with many layers –deep neural networks (DNNs) perform better than shallow ones. A pictorial representation of a deep neural network is presented in the Fig. 2 below.

Fig. 2: Pictorial Representation of a Deep Neural Network.

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Typically, these DNNs contain thousands of layers, tens of thousands of neurons, and millions of connections in them. Although deeper neural networks yield better performance, they are bulky and warrant the use of powerful GPUs and large storage capabilities.

For image datasets, a specialized DNN known as the convolutional neural network (CNN) is employed. CNNs leverage the spatial context in images by means of a mathematical operator know as convolution. On a high level, CNNs comprise of a series of convolutional layers, wherein each layer extracts various image features that are later used to make predictions. In general, earlier convolutional layers extract general (low-level) features such as edges, curves in an image and deeper layers extract finer (high-level) features such as shapes and objects.

Empirical evidence has proven that CNNs are the backbone of image-based artificially intelligent devices. They attain top performance in computer vision tasks, such as image classification, facial recognition and detection, image segmentation, animation, pose estimation, and object detection, among many others. However, similar to DNNs, state-of-the-art CNNs contain millions of parameters leading to massive model sizes, thereby making them infeasible for use in compact mobile devices.

Need for CNN Compression.

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the backbone of image-based artificially intelligent devices owing to their top performance in computer vision. The superior performance of CNNs can be attributed to their enormous depth and width. State-of-the-art CNNs are thousands of layers deep and consist of tens of millions of parameters, leading to expansive model sizes. Such large models require large storage and computational capabilities. On the other hand, edge devices such as mobile phones and smart watches are resource constrained.

The available compute, memory, power, and storage capabilities are limited and therefore, it is infeasible to deploy bulky CNNs on them.

In order to leverage the superior generalization capabilities of CNNs, cloud inference is often preferred. In this approach, the large CNN model is hosted on a virtual cloud. When the edge-device collects data samples, it transmits them to the cloud over the internet, wherein the CNN model is used to perform inference on this data. Subsequently, the inference results are transmitted back to the edge-device as depicted in Fig. 3.

Although this is a straight forward workaround to enable edge-devices to access the powerful generalization of CNNs, it is restricted in many Fig. 3: Pictorial Representation of Cloud Inference. ways including, the need for constant, reliable internet connectivity, overhead cloud compute costs, speed of inference being limited by the speed of internet, privacy and security concerns because the data leaves the edge-device and travels through the internet making them susceptible, and more greenhouse emission due to the operation of large deep learning models. One approach to overcome all these issues is to compress the large deep learning models in order to deploy them directly on edge-devices.

CNN Compression Methods.

Recently, the area of CNN compression has attracted significant research interest, with multiple techniques proposed in the literature to this end. Principal approaches include pruning - wherein some nodes/layers are Continued on page 20 student feature

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Compressing Neural Networks Towards Edge Artificial Intelligence, continued pruned/removed to reduce the model size, quantization - wherein the parameters are stored in lower precision to achieve space savings, knowledge distillation - wherein a smaller student model is trained to mimic the performance of a larger teacher model, and tensor methods – which involves the use of multilinear algebraic operations to manipulate the parameters in a CNN to achieve compression. Importantly, as the parameters in a CNN assume a natural tensor (multiway array) structure, tensor methods are well-suited to take advantage of this fact to achieve significant model compression. At the MILOS lab, we focus on leveraging tensor methods for CNN compression, wherein we strive to develop lightweight layers to replace parameter-dense convolutional layers, in order to achieve significant reduction in model sizes, while maintaining the original machine learning performance.

We present a visual representation of a compressed deep neural network in Fig. 4 consisting of much fewer layers and/or nodes compared to a deep neural network as in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4: Pictorial Representation of a Compressed Deep Neural Network.

In summary.

Despite the widespread applicability of AI models, deep learning networks have massive sizes and cannot be deployed on resource-constrained edge devices such as mobile phones and smart watches. Although cloud inference is a straightforward workaround to this issue, it comes with its own problems including the need for constant internet connectivity and privacy and security concerns. Researchers have recently focused on compressing bulky deep learning models in order to deploy them directly onto the edge device. Our research involves the replacement of the bulky CNN layer by a lightweight layer that incorporates multilinear operations, leading to significant parameter savings, and reduction in model size, while preserving the original machine learning capacity. q Author Bio's:

Mayur Dhanaraj is a PhD candidate and a research assistant at the Machine Learning Optimization and Signal Processing (MILOS) Laboratory, housed in the Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, and signal processing, with a focus on the development of theory and algorithms for reliable data analysis, and techniques for deep learning model compression.

Panos P. Markopoulos is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the director of the Machine Learning Optimization and Signal Processing (MILOS) Laboratory. His research interests include machine learning, data science, and adaptive signal processing, with an aim to advance efficient, explainable, and trustworthy artificial intelligence. His research group has attracted funding on exciting projects from the NSF, NGA, AFOSR, AFRL, NYSTAR/UR CoE in Data Science, L3 Harris, and RIT-KGCOE.

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The Canandaigua resident has more than 25 years of human resources experience that includes more than two decades in leadership roles in the health care, professional services, and manufacturing industries.

Her focus on leadership development, talent acquisition, performance management, and employee engagement, with expertise in collaborative business leadership and multisite management, will be invaluable to the growth of the firm. q Cynthia A. “Cindy” Andrews

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Adapting smart garments to observe respiratory behavior associated with tobacco usage

By Shehan Jayasekera, PhD Student, Kate Gleason College of Engineering, RIT We have entered the age of smart devices and wearable technologies. These devices provide access to a wide range of information hitherto difficult to obtain. The smartphone in our pockets can now track our sleep-wake cycle, step count, and energy expenditure. Our smartwatch can tell us our heart rate and hydration level. Similarly, smart shirts can tell us our breathing rate and body temperature. Wearable technologies are revolutionizing personal healthcare by enabling users to monitor their own vital biosignals in a non-intrusive and relatively inexpensive way. These devices also have tremendous potential in aiding research by providing an easy platform for researchers to observe behaviors and biosignals that were previously hard to measure in free-living conditions.

One such behavior is breathing. Presently, the gold-standard for measuring breathing is with the use of a spirometer or a nasal cannula, neither of which are suitable for long term ambulatory measurements, especially when attempting to measure breathing while the subject is performing their usual activity in their home or work environment. One domain that would benefit from an ambulatory and non-invasive method of measuring breathing parameters is in tobacco research, particularly in the study of how people inhale and exhale vapor from ecigs, which fits into the initiative to study tobacco use behavior by the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products.

Computational models tell us that the way a person inhales and exhales (flow rate, volume, duration) impact how much and where nicotine and hazardous chemicals get deposited in the lungs. Using data from these models, we can eventually predict how toxicity and health-effects of tobacco users are influenced by the usage patterns.

New developments in wearable technologies have produced wearable respiratory monitors (WRMs) that may allow us to measure breathing behavior of tobacco users while they use their product at home and work. These off-the-shelf WRM garments have embedded sensors which measure a multitude of biosignals, such as heart rate, body temperature, and body posture. They also have sensors that measure chest motion, which the device uses to infer breathing rate by looking at the rise and fall of the chest motion as the wearer inhales and exhales. As they are currently, WRMs are not able to measure breathing behavior directly. However, there is a way to utilize the chest motion signal to infer the respiratory waveform using a theoretical relationship that was first introduced in 1967.

Technological limitations at the time made it impractical to employ this model but recent technological advancements may prove fruitful.

This would unlock the ability for researchers to measure the key respiratory parameters of interest on tobacco users in their natural use environment without disrupting their behavior.

The research team at the Respiratory Technologies Lab (RTL) at RIT has picked up the challenge of adapting current market WRMs to bridge the technological gaps and apply the theoretical model. The first step was to find a WRM that would be the most suitable candidate. Of the 9 currently available WRMs in the market, 3 were chosen for robust characterization using a custom-built benchtop test setup. The goal was to determine if these WRMs would work with the model that relates chest motion to respiratory volume under a controlled setting.

From these 3, the Hexoskin Smart Garment (Carré Technologies Inc., Montréal, PQ, Canada) was found to be most suitable. It has two chest motion sensors that measure the motion at the thorax and at the abdomen and the benchtop results suggest these signals correlate to breathing behavior. The next step was to calibrate the Hexoskin against a spirometer to obtain the model parameters that would convert the chest motion signal to a respiratory signal. The calibration must be done on each person wearing the garment because the calibration parameters are dependent on the exact physiology of the person and how they breath. Once the calibration is conducted, the Hexoskin is ready for use by tobacco users.

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Researchers at the RTL are investigating the impact of tobacco product characteristics on how the user inhales and exhales. Tobacco manufacturers have control over the design of their products, and some of these design choices can be harmful to the users. For example, “low-yield” cigarettes were once purported by manufacturers to be safer than regular cigarettes, but researchers found that users would change their puffing behavior (longer, harder, and more frequently) to compensate, thus maintaining the same or even increasing the level of harm.

Now there is interest in studying if lowering nicotine strength in ecigs would have the same effect. The RTL has an ongoing study where users of the popular JUUL ecig are provided with a lowered nicotine e-liquid and their respiratory behavior is monitored using the Hexoskin to see if there is any change in their respiratory behavior both while using and not using the JUUL. In a previous study, the impact of the restrictiveness of the tobacco product’s flow path on puffing and inhalation behavior was assessed. The hypothesis was that hookah users would most likely perform the “direct-to-lung” behavior, wherein they inhale a large amount of smoke directly into the lungs every time they puff, whereas cigarettes users are more likely to perform the “mouth-to-lung” (MTL) behavior, which involves first puffing the smoke into the mouth before inhaling the smoke and clean air into the lungs. This difference is believed to be because the flow path of a cigarette is more restrictive than of a hookah. The results from 4 cigarette and 5 hookah users indicated that this is indeed the case.

Example data from a cigarette user and a hookah user. The red lines are the respiratory waveform. Rising waveform indicates inhalation and falling waveform indicates exhalation. The black lines are the puff waveform. The key insight is in when the inhale happens relative to the puff. In “Mouth To Lung” (MTL), the inhale occurs after the puff. In “Direct To Lung” (DTL), the inhale happens concurrently with the puff.

Although some more work still needs to be done to improve the quality of the measurements, this approach has demonstrated the potential of utilizing a WRM for gathering research data. As wearable smart devices become more and more ubiquitous as we integrate them into our daily lives, they will enable new avenues of research, not only just in the tobacco regulatory sciences. For example, WRMs may be used to study respiratory behaviors of individuals with pulmonary diseases or to the study the heart rate variations in cardiovascular patients, all in their home or work environments. In the future, newer smart devices may become available that have sensors that would unlock even more potential. q student feature

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Announcing the 2021 RES Awards Recipients | 16 - 29

Jarrod P. Adams 2021 Engineer of Distinction

Mark F. Bocko, PhD 2021 Engineer of Distinction

Maura Chmielowiec

2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist

Lydia M. Hays

2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist

John W. Nieto

2021 Engineer of the Year

Jarmes P. Farnham, Jr. 2021 Engineer of Distinction

Alan Pilecki 2021 Engineer of Distinction

Thomas Howard, PhD

Jacob W. Hillmon 2021 Engineer of Distinction

Peter C. Sherer 2021 Engineer of Distinction

2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist

Andrew D. White, PhD

2021 Young Engineer of the Year

Joseph D. Majkowski

2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist

Sage Keefer

2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist

Megan N. Smith

2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist

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 Up & Coming Engineers - Meet Larry Lewis | 30  Campus News | 32

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 Congratulations to the Scholarship Recipients | 14  Position Openings | 36

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Continuing Education Opportunities

Go to the RES Website for Updated Details On All Meetings - www.roceng.org BE SURE TO CHECK IF A MEETING IS STILL SCHEDULED BECAUSE OF COVID-19

No PDH Meetings Scheduled Check the website calendar for any updates.

To post continuing education opportunities on this page please contact the Rochester Engineering Society, 585-254-2350, or email: therochesterengineer@gmail.com

Engineers’ Calendar

The engineering societies are encouraged to submit their meeting notices for publication in this section. The deadline for submitting copy is the 10th of the month prior to the month of publication. Please email to: Therochesterengineer@gmail.com. The meetings offering PDHs are highlighted in blue. Details about the meeting and affiliate (if in this issue) are on the corresponding page listed next to the affiliate name.

Tuesday, June 7

Thursday, June 16

EXCOM Meeting

Engineering Trustworthy Secure Systems

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) p 32 Place: Hybrid, via WebEx and in-person (see vtools for venue and WebEx login) Time: 11:50 am to 1:15 pm Registration links for our events are at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/307431.

Wednesday, June 8

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

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Welcome ASHRAE Society President Mick Schwedler to Rochester - Cruise the Erie Canal with Colonial Belle Place: Packett’s Landing, Fairport, NY 14450 Time: 3:30 to 5:30 pm (includes hors d’oeuvres and cash bar) Look for invites from the website: www.rochesterashrae.org.

Thursday, June 9

American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) ASPE Annual Golf Outing

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Place: Victor Hills Golf Club, 1397 Brace Road, Victor, NY 14564 Reservations: A flyer will mailed to the membership.

Send registrations to Jennifer Wengender at 255 Woodcliff Drive, Fairport, NY 14450 by June 1st.

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International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) p 29 Speaker: Dr. Mark Winstead, Chief Engineer, MITRE Corporation Place: We use zoom for our monthly meetings. We also now have one location in Rochester for attending in-person: L3Harris Technologies, 1680 University Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610. There is no cost to attend, but pre-registration is required.

Time: Meetings begin at 6:00 pm and runt to approximately 7:30 pm Registration: To register send an email to Teresa.Froncek@incose.net and state if you will in attend in-person at L3Harris (further instructions will be send out before the meeting). For virtual attendees, a link will be sent out a few days before the meeting.

Thursday, June 16

Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association (GVLSA) p 38 Board of Directors Meeting

Place: 40 & 8 Club, 933 University Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607 Time: 6:00 pm Details: www.gvlsa.com.

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Wednesday, June 22

Association for Bridge Construction and Design (ABCD) 23rd Annual Scholarship Golf Outing

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Place: Terry Hills Country Club, Batavia, NY Time: Registration beginning at 11:00 am; Lunch beginning at 11:00 (Halfway House); Shotgun Start at 12:00 pm; Keg beer starting 1 hour before dinner, Steak Dinner at 5:30 pm; Awards following dinner.

Cost: $125 per person (includes lunch, golf with cart, keg beer, dinner, and prizes). Dinner only is $40. $200 Hole sponsorships available.

Registration: Register online at www.abcdwny.com from May 23rd through June 17th. Additional information, contact Jason Messenger, PE, 585-748-0596 or jmessenter@luengineers.com.

Wednesday, June 22

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

52nd Engineer of the Year – Honoring Thomas Frys, PE

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Place: Penfield Country Club, 1784 Jackson Road, Penfield, NY 14526 Times: Cocktails & hors d’oeuvres at 5:30 pm; Dinner, Coffee, Dessert at 6:30; Award Ceremony at 7:30 pm.

Cost: Members $55, Non-members $65, Students $20.

Table of 8 - $400, ASCE Life Members complimentary.

Reservations: Link to be emailed to the membership // jrodems@bergmannpc.com

Monday, June 27

Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) p 37 IES Annual Golf Tournament

Place: Stafford Country Club (joint venture with IES Buffalo Section) Space is limited, register now! For full details and online registration visit the website at: www.iesrochester.org.

Wednesday, June 29

Rochester Engineering Society (RES) Happy Hour to kick-off the summer.

Place: Exchange Sports Bar, 251 Exchange Blvd., Rochester, NY 14608 Time: 5:00 pm

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New Developments Downtown with Walking Tour & Social Hour

Place: Meet in the Paychex Theater at The Strong, 1 Manhattan Square Drive, Rochester 14607) at 3:00 pm. After the presentation and tour the Happy Hour is at Roc Brewing Co., 56 South Union Street, Rochester, 14607 Time: Presentation & Walking Tour from 3:00 to about 5:00; Happy Hour with Cash Bar about 5:00 pm.

Cost: Free (except cash bar).

Registration: Registration is required and details are on the website at www.roceng.org.

Friday, July 22

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Annual 18-Hole Scholarship Golf Tournament

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Place: Webster Golf Course, 440 Salt Road, Webster, 14580 Time: Registration, Lunch, and Social Hour – 10:30 am to 11:45 am; Shotgun Start at 12:00 pm; Dinner will be served after the tournament.

Cost: $110/person,m includes lunch, driving range, 18 holes, cart, dinner and drink tickets.

Registration: o register or sponsor a hole, contact Josh Rodems at 585-498-7944 or jrodems@bergmannpc.com. Reservations and payment due by July 8th. See page 31 in this issue for a registration form. ASCE will comply with current CDC and NY State COVID-19 regulations at the time of the event.

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Upcoming March Chapter Meeting: March 17, 2022 Upcoming Chapter Meeting: June 16, 2022

 “Introduction to Railway Signaling and Train Control for Rapid Transit” Stuart Landau, Senior Train Control Systems  By “Engineering Trustworthy Secure Systems” - Dr. Engineer Mark Winstead, Chief RailwayEngineer signaling MITRE allows safe operations of multiple trains on the same tracks and Corporation

In 2016,capacity the National for Standards & Technology NISTbrief Special Publicationto optimizes of Institute the tracks.

This presentation willreleased be a very introduction 800-160 -guidance addressing the systems engineering subdiscipline of systems security engineering (redesignated NIST SPhave 800-160 volume 1 in 2018). In 2021 NIST off an its basic principles and how they been implemented over the lastkicked several update to this seminal document to update for advances and lessons learned from its use, decades various technologies, from mechanical devices to microprocessorwith thewith initial public draft (IPD) released for public comment 11 January 2022, the final public draft (FPD) expected May, and final this summer.

based equipment. Application of the principles varies across different types of

Renamed “Engineering Trustworthy Secure Systems” the revision, Volumeand 1 Revision 1 railways; here we will focus on rapid transit whichfor includes subways metros,

aligns closely (partially intentionally, partially coincidentally) with INCOSE’s Systems 2035 and supporting efforts such and as security in theCommunicationsFuture of Systems andEngineering will cover Vision wayside signaling, cab signaling, the latest Engineering (FuSE). This presentation will discuss NIST SP 800-160 Volume 1 Revision 1 in Based Train Control (CBTC). its role as describing principles and concepts for a systems engineering team’s role with engineering trustworthy secure systems while relating it to INCOSE efforts and initiatives. ©2022 The MITRE Corporation. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Approved for public release. Distribution unlimited 21-03532-6.

Meetings begin at 6:00 pm (eastern) and run to approximately 7:30 pm (eastern) Meetings begin at 6:00 pm (eastern) and run to approximately 7:30 pm (eastern) Allzoom meetings are monthly being held virtuallyWe until further notice.

We use for our meetings. also now have one location in Rochester for attending in-person: Technologies facility at 1680 University Avenue, Rochester NY, We use zoom forL3Harris our monthly meetings.

14610. There is no cost to attend for anyone, but pre-registration is required.

• There is no cost to attend for anyone, but pre-registration is required.

To register, send to Teresa.Froncek@incose.net and state if you will attend o an To email register, send an email to Teresa.Froncek@incose.net in-person at L3Harris The link will outsent a few the meeting For those virtual attendees: The be linksent will be out days a fewbefore days before the meeting.

For in-person attendees (L3Harris): Further instructions will be sent out before the meeting.

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Rochester Section

American Society of Civil Engineers sections.asce.org/rochester

The Rochester Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers is pleased to announce the

52nd ENGINEER OF THE YEAR Honoring;

Thomas Frys, P.E, M.ASCE

Tom currently serves as the Director at the Monroe County Department of Transportation. A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Tom previously worked for several consulting firms as a Transportation Project Manager and Design Engineer. Tom’s ASCE involvement included serving on the board for seven years with roles ranging from President in 2007 to Continuing Educational Chair. Between 2008 and 2014 Tom served as the Awards and Prizes Chairman where he organized ASCE’s Engineer of the Year recognitions and the RIT and MCC student awards.

Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Penfield County Club 1784 Jackson Road, Penfield, NY 14526 RSVP: Link to be e-mailed to membership // jrodems@bergmannpc.com Banquet Program: 5:30 pm - Cocktails & Hors d’Oeuvres 6:30 pm - Dinner, Coffee, Dessert 7:30 pm - Award Ceremony

Cost: Members $55, Non-Members $65, Students $20 Table (of 8) $400, ASCE Life Members complimentary Cash bar // 2 Drink tickets per person

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Annual 18-Hole Scholarship Golf Tournament Friday, July 22, 2022 Proceeds will benefit the ASCE scholarship program to support future civil engineers.

Colleagues, friends, and family are all welcome to join the fun. Foursomes and individual sign-ups are welcome.

Four-Person Scramble Format Webster Golf Course 440 Salt Road, Webster, NY Registration, Lunch, and Social Hour: 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Shotgun Start: 12:00 p.m.

Dinner will be served following the tournament.

Cost: $110/person incl. lunch, driving range, 18 holes, cart, dinner and drink tickets.

www.webstergolf.com

To register or sponsor a hole, contact Josh Rodems Phone: 585-498-7944 Email: jrodems@bergmannpc.com Reservations

and payment due by 7/8/2022

Participant Names:

Company Name and Address:

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Please make checks payable to ASCE – Rochester Section.

Phone: ________________________________________________

Corporate Sponsorships: $150 – Hole Sponsorship (Sign) $175 – “Longest Drive” or “Closest to Pin” Sponsorship Participant Sponsorship Packages: (All packages include registration for four golfers and hole sponsorship.) $575 - Team Sponsor (save $15 on foursome + hole sign) $700 - Driving Range Sponsor $750 - Lunch Sponsor $800 - Dinner Sponsor $900 - Cart Sponsor (Company Ad in Each Golf Cart) asce news

Send Completed Form and Payment to: Josh Rodems Bergmann 280 E. Broad Street, Suite 200 Rochester, NY 14604 Phone: (585) 498-7944 Email: jrodems@bergmannpc.com

ASCE will comply with current CDC and NY State COVID-19 regulations at the time of the event!

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June 2022 Newsletter Section Officers Chair Eric Brown Vice Chair Kelly Robinson Treasurer Howard Bussey Secretary (Vacant)

Chapters & Groups AES & COMSOC Cristiano Tapparello CS & CIS Bo Yuan EDS & CSS Sean Rommel EMBS Cristian Linte GRSS Emmett Ientilucci LIFE Mark Schrader APS & MTTS Danielle Walters Photonics Bruce Smith Parsian K. Mohseni PES & IAS Jean Kendrick Kelly Robinson SPS Alex Byrley Eric Zeise TEMS Paul Lee Young Professionals Eric Brown

Student Groups Univ. of Rochester Ming-Lun Lee RIT Jamison Heard

Committees Awards Jean Kendrick Communications Christine Frayda Howard Bussey Newsletter Mark Schrader PACE Bruce Rubin

Liaisons RES Greg Gdowski RCSS William Brewer

Message from the Chair Dear Colleagues, Thanks to the Rochester Section Milestone Committee (Bill Fowlkes, Sreeram Dhurjaty, Mark Schrader), Kelly Robinson, and everyone else who made the Digital Camera Milestone and JCM a great success. See below for more details.

Congratulations Emmett Ientilucci, our Section Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Chair, on receiving tenure and a promotion to Associate Professor at RIT. Emmett is one of the primary driving forces behind the very successful annual STRATUS Conference that was held May 23-25 at SUNY ESF in Syracuse. Look for our report on the Conference in the August Newsletter.

The next ExCom meeting will be Tuesday, August 2, from noon to 1 pm (vTools #311468). In-person attendance details are available on the vTools registration page.

Stay healthy and best regards,

Digital Camera IEEE Milestone Ceremony & Joint Chapters Meeting The dedication ceremony for the permanent IEEE Milestone Plague at the Kodak Center on Ridge Road on April 26 was hosted by Dr. Eric Brown, the Chair of the IEEE Rochester Section. Other distinguished speakers at the event were Professor Greg Gdowski, IEEE Region One Director, Ken Parulski of aKAP Innovation, and Terry R. Taber, PhD, CTO of the Eastman Kodak Company who was given honor of revealing the plaque to the attendees and to the world.

The inscription on the plaque reads: A self-contained portable digital camera was invented at an Eastman Kodak Company laboratory. It used movie camera optics, a charge-coupled device as an electronic light sensor, a temporary buffer of randomaccess memory, and image storage on a digital cassette. Subsequent commercial digital cameras using flash memory storage revolutionized how images are captured, processed, and shared, creating opportunities in commerce, education, and global communications.

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The Joint Chapters Meeting was organized by Kelly Robinson, PhD, Rochester Section Vice-Chair. This technical meeting, which took place after the Milestone, consisted of 2 intervals of 3 parallel technical talks.

Our thanks to the presenters: Kelly Robinson, PhD, Professor Jenny Zheng, Ken Parulski, Dr. Aaron Grace, Chung Hui Kuo, PhD, and Ram Dhurjaty, PhD. The talks were followed by a social reception and a dinner with a keynote speaker. Terry Taber PhD, CTO of Kodak was the Keynote speaker who spoke about Kodak’s current digital innovations including MEMS printhead inventions for very high-speed ink jet printing.

As a thank-you gift Terry was presented with a framed photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy taken by Patrick Cosgrove, a local astrophotographer and former Kodak employee. The following is the link to the Andromeda Galaxy image: https://cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/m31-lhargb

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IEEE RIT Student Chapter Lights Up Imagine RIT "Being able to see the future generation excited about electronics is great feeling and being able to facilitate that excitement is absolutely wonderful" said Cameron Villone who had the initial idea for their IEEE interactive booth at Imagine RIT. Visitors to the booth made drawings and then added LEDs and circuits using copper tape for conductors to create illuminated features such as eyes. Cameron also led the project for the creation of the booth.

Christina Nguyen – “It was great to see people from all age groups come together and be creative. We student exhibitors were glad to teach the basics of circuits and light up our guests' drawings.”

Thanks to Jean Kendrick for her assistance reporting this event.

PES & IAS Joint Conference on Electrostatics, Sunday June 12 The IEEE Rochester Section Power and Energy Society and Industry Applications Society Joint Chapter hosts the virtual attendance. The cost is $25 for virtual attendance for all three tutorials.

Gas Discharge and Electrical Breakdown presented by: Prof. Akira Mizuno, Toyohashi University of Technology, & Prof. Shesha Jayaram, University of Waterloo Electrostatic Instruments and Measurements presented by: Prof. Mark Horenstein, Boston University, & Prof. Maciej Noras, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Electrostatic Processes presented by: Dr. Kelly Robinson, Electrostatic Answers, Rochester NY.

Please see: http://electrostatics.org/jointconferenceonelectrostatics.html for details

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657 East Avenue, Rochestter, New York 14607 Dedicated to Professionalism in Engineering in the Interest of Public Safety and Welfare 2021-22 Officers: President Michael O. Ritchie, PE, President-elect Bill Grove, PE, Vice-President Robert K. Winans, PE, Secretary Martin E. Gordon, PE, Treasurer Christopher R. Devries, PE Past Presidents: Christopher V. Kambar, PE , David C. Roberts, PE, Directors: Barry J. Dumbauld, PE, Donald Nims, PE, Joseph Dombrowski, PE, Jim Drago, PE, Neal Illenberg, PE, Douglas R. Strang Jr., PE

MPES SCHOLARSHIPS MPES sponsors two annual scholarships for local college students to study Engineering. To ensure that this organization can continue to provide scholarships to deserving students for years to come, we are seeking donations from local engineering firms, RES and MPES members. For more information on how to make a donation please email mritchie@costich.com.

MESSAGE FROM OUTGOING MPES PRESIDENT It has been my honor to serve as president of the Monroe PE Society for these past two years.

Although I entered into this role more abruptly than I had anticipated, the current Board of Director’s, including the Past-Presidents, helped smooth out the transition. During this time our organization has had to adapt to the continuing evolution of the COVID-19 virus and the rules and regulations imposed as a result. Unfortunately our Board was not able to meet in person, with the exception of the June meetings, and instead met via zoom. Many of the programs such as TEAMS and Mathcounts that this board supports and regularly organizes have been paused during COVID, but this Board looks forward to starting the programs back up once things get back to normal.

As I leave this role, I plan to continue to support our chapter as an active member. I’d like to express my heartfelt thanks to the members of the board of directors and the individual society members who have supported me and made it a pleasure to serve as president. Please join me in welcoming the incoming president, Bill Grove, P.E. Bill’s two-year term of office will begin on July 1st of this year.

With deep gratitude & respect, Michael Ritchie, P.E As always, we encourage active membership in the Monroe Professional Engineers Society. We are constantly striving to improve your membership but we always need more help. If you are interested in becoming an active member or have any questions, please email me at mritchie@costich.com or contact MPES through our website at www.monroepes.org/contactus/.

Mike Ritchie, PE, President, MPES

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Rochester, NY Section P.O. Box 23795 Rochester, NY 14692 www.iesrochester.org

IES ROCHESTER SECTION OUR ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT IS ONCE AGAIN A JOINT VENTURE WITH THE IES BUFFALO SECTION - SAME LOCATION AS LAST YEAR !

JOIN US ON MONDAY JUNE 27TH AT STAFFORD COUNTRY CLUB SPACE IS LIMITED REGISTER NOW !

FOR FULL DETAILS AND ONLINE REGISTRATION, PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.IESROCHESTER.ORG Please remember to visit our website at www.iesrochester.org ies news

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Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association Website: www.gvlsa.com

Facebook: facebook.com/GVLSA

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups/8212223

Year 2022 Officers

Board of Directors

President Justin M. Roloson, LS Vice President Matthew R. Palmer, LS Secretary Martin J. Gotwalt, LS Treasurer Michael A. Venturo, LS

2019-2022 Gregory T. Pauly, LS Jeffrey A. Tiede, LS 2019-2022 Christopher T. Locke, LS David L. Standinger, LS 2020-2023 Robert J. Avery, LS Nathan M. Dunn, LS Jared R. Ransom, LS

June 2022

Jared R. Ransom, LS, Ex-officio

Keith Burley, LSIT 2022 - Associates Representative David Zuber, LSIT - Website Administrator

Upcoming Events 2022

May 16, 2022 Board of Directors Meeting - 6:00 PM 40 & 8 Club 933 University Avenue Rochester, NY 14607

No July Meeting

Board of Directors Meeting Thursday, June 16, 2022 Time: 6:00 PM

Professional Affiliations  New York State Association of Professional Land Surveyors, Inc.  National Society of Professional Surveyors  Rochester Engineering Society

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23nd Annual Scholarship Golf Outing Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Save the date as the Association for Bridge Construction and Design would like to welcome everyone to participate in our annual Scholarship Golf Tournament. The tournament proceeds will benefit the ABCD Scholarship Program. The Western New York Chapter plans to award scholarships to students in a bridge related curriculum for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Terry Hills Country Club; Batavia, NY

Highlights • Registration beginning at 11:30 AM

• Keg beer starting 1 hour before dinner

• Lunch beginning at 11:30 AM (Halfway House)

• Steak Dinner at 5:30 PM

• Shotgun Start at 12:30 PM Location

• Awards following Dinner

Contact Information

Terry Hills Country Club 5122 Clinton Street Road Batavia, NY 14020 Phone: (585) 343-0860

Cost

$125 per person (includes Lunch, Golf Jason Messenger, PE with Cart, Keg Beer, Dinner, and Prizes) Phone: (585) 748-0596 $40 (dinner only) Email: jmessenger@luengineers.com $200 Hole Sponsorships available

Register Online at www.abcdwny.com May 23rd thru June 17th abcd news

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Rochester Chapter

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers Rochester ASHRAE website: www.rochesterashrae.org

JUNE NEWSLETTER

President's Message The Rochester Chapter ASHRAE program year is complete, and what a great year it was! Thank you to the Rochester ASHRAE officers, committee members and membership. The Rochester chapter appreciates your time and dedication. It is your effort to give back to our ASHRAE community that made our chapter’s year the success that is was!

On May 16th we had our annual golf tournament at Ravenwood. Many thanks to Jim Browe and Kacie Sutton on planning this event year after year! The last order of business at the May Golf event was the announcement of our 2022-2023 Chapter Officers and Board of Governors: 2022-2023 ASHRAE Rochester Chapter Officers President

Matt Kremers

President Elect

Jim Parks

Treasurer

Bret Fryover

Secretary

Gannon Dubay

Board of Governors BOG 3rd year

Brian Heffernan and Scott Prindle

BOG 2nd year

Aidan Subra and Chris Cody

BOG 1st year

Nik Jaremka and Evan Smith Please join us as we welcome our ASHRAE Society President Mick Schwedler to Rochester on June 8th. Matt Kremers has lined up a cruise of the Erie Canal with Colonial Belle, from 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm. Tour starts at Packett’s Landing and will include hors d’oeuvres with a cash bar. Look for invites from our new website at www.rochesterashrae.org.

Scott G. Edwards, 2021-2022 ASHRAE Rochester Chapter President

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Terra Rochester Finger Lakes Science & Engineering Fair Harold Clark TRFSEF Director trfsef@terraed.org

This year’s fair was a great success in opening the world of STEM to almost 90 students.

And we’re already planning next year’s!

Save the Date!

Saturday, March 18, 2023

at the RMSC Museum & Science Center If you’d like to see the projects from this year’s Fair, go to the Fair Website, Fair/Showcase, Keyword = FairDay

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President/Education Chair: DAVID MYERS LaBella Associates, PC 300 State Street Suite 201 Rochester, NY 14614 585-454-6110 Vice President Technical: DAVE JERECKOS IBC Engineering, PC 3445 Winton Place Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590 Vice President Legislative: ALAN SMITH, P.E. IBC Engineering, PC 3445 Winton Place Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590

President's Message The June meeting will finally be in-person on June 9th. Bring your golf clubs as we will be meeting at the Victor Hills Golf Club for a little fun and enjoyment. Stay for dinner and meet some of your local Representatives and Board Members.

ASPE’s has several Training and Certification Programs: • The ‘Green Plumbing Design (GPD)’ which is being transitioned to an online course and certification.

• Medical Gas Training and Certification Program. ASPE assist in the design of the training part of this certificate program.

Visit our web page for Links to Engineering Societies, Publications and State Codes and Engineering Tools.

Vice President Membership/AYP: TRAVIS JESSICK Dave Gooding Inc 173 Spark Street Brockton MA 02302 585-794-8845

The Green Plumbing Design (GPD) certification program is available as an online course and certification test for GPD credential. ASPE Member $500 – Non-Members $600. Additional information on the ASPE website.

Treasurer: JENNIFER WENGENDER, P.E., CPD CPL 205 St Paul Blvd Rochester, NY 14604 585-454-7600

The ASPE Rochester ‘Golf Outing’ is June 9, 2022, at Victor Hills.

Sign up as a team or individually. Sponsorships are welcome.

Look for flyers in the mail.

Administrative Secretary: ADAM KRAMER Bergmann 280 E. Broad Street Suite 200 Rochester, NY 14604 585-498-7802 Newsletter Editor: CHRIS WOLAK Victaulic Fairport, NY 14450 484-350-1954 Affiliate Liaison: REBECCA KOLSTAD Kolstad Associates

ASPE Convention/Expo is being held September 16-21, 2022, in Indianapolis and registration is now open.

Please feel free to contact myself or any Board Member with questions or concern.

David W. Myers

Rochester Chapter President

Meeting Notice – Save the Date Topic:

GolfMeeting Outing, Victor Hills –Golf Clubthe Notice Save

Speaker: ASPE Board, Meet the Sponsors.

Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 Date: June 9, 2022 RSVP: Time:

Date

Jennifer Wengender, at 255 Woodcliff Drive, Fairport NY 14450, by June 1st, 2022 To Be Announced

(Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society)

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Service. Solutions. Results. www.passero.com

Engineering Architecture Survey Planning Construction Observation

Advertising Rates and Membership Application is Available at www.roceng.org directory of professional services

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Directory of Professional Services

Full-Service Engineering, Architecture + Code Compliance 255 East Avenue Rochester, NY 14604

Solving soils problems for over 40 years.

46A Sager Drive, Rochester, NY 14607 Tel: 585-458-0824 • Fax: 585-458-3323 www.foundationdesignpc.com

(585) 512-2000 ww.tylin.com

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April 2022

Announcing the 2021 RES Awards Recipients | 16 - 29

Jarrod P. Adams 2021 Engineer of Distinction

Mark F. Bocko, PhD 2021 Engineer of Distinction

Maura Chmielowiec

2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist

Lydia M. Hays

2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist

John W. Nieto

2021 Engineer of the Year

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Jarmes P. Farnham, Jr. 2021 Engineer of Distinction

Alan Pilecki 2021 Engineer of Distinction

Thomas Howard, PhD

Jacob W. Hillmon 2021 Engineer of Distinction

Peter C. Sherer 2021 Engineer of Distinction

2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist

Andrew D. White, PhD

2021 Young Engineer of the Year

Joseph D. Majkowski

2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist

Sage Keefer

2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist

Megan N. Smith

2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist

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Also in this issue:  RES Annual Meeting

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 Up & Coming Engineers - Meet Larry Lewis | 30  Campus News | 32

 Professional Firms - Employee News

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 Congratulations to the Scholarship Recipients | 14  Position Openings | 36

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Directory of Business Services Advisors

Investment products and services are offered through Wells Fargo Advisors, a trade name used by Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC, Member SIPC, a registered broker-dealer and non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company.

Philip J. Welch

First Vice President - Investments

Wells Fargo Advisors

400 Meridian Centre, Suite 210 Rochester, NY 14618 Direct: 585-241-7546 Fax: 585-241-3986 philip.J.welch@wellsfargoadvisors.com

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Affiliated Societies of the Rochester Engineering Society American Consulting Engineering, Companies of New York

Executive Director, Karen Lynch

Electrical Association

American Public Works Association Monroe County/Genesee Valley Branch

Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association

President, Alex Strasenburgh

Chairman, Peter Vars, PE,

New York State Association of Transportation Engineers, Section 4 President, Paul J. Spitzer PE

President, Jared R. Ransom, LS Rochester, NY Section

P.O. Box 23795 Rochester Plant Engineers Rochester, NY 14692 President, Brian Laurer www.iesrochester.org

American Society of Civil Engineers, Rochester Section President, Andrew Wojewodzic

Illuminating SocietyMEETINGS of North IESEngineering ROCHESTER America Inc., Rochester Section

ARE BACK !!!

President, Rob Gleason

SEPTEMBER 29,2021 - 7:00 PM

FREE Event

COME TOUR THE WINNER OF OUR IES ROCHESTER Sheet MetalPARK & Air-Conditioning EXTERIOR LIGHTING AWARD - ROC CITY SKATE Contractor’s Association MEMBERS FROM THE DESIGN TEAM FROM STANTEC National AND Rochester, Inc. FROM THE CITY OF ROCHESTER WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE Executive Director, Aaron Hilger PLEASE REGISTER ONLINE AT WWW.IESROCHESTER.ORG Imaging Science & Technology,

Rochester Chapter

President, Bruce Pillman

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Rochester Chapter President, Mike Benedict

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Society of Plastics Engineers, Engineers, Rochester Section Rochester Section Wednesday October 13 - 12:00 Noon Chairman, Eric Brown President, Brett Blaisdell Basics of Modern Theatre Lighting System Design - Power Distribution & Control - DMX & Networking - LED Theatrical Luminaires

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Rochester Section Chairman, Berto Perez

Institute of Industrial and Systems Location & Details TBD - Save The Date !

Engineers, Rochester Chapter Please Visit Our Website For More Details President, Tim Gallman www.iesrochester.org

American Society of Plumbing Engineers, Rochester NY Chapter President, David Myers

Society of Women Engineers.

Rochester Section President, Marca J. Lam

International Council on Systems Engineering, Finger Lakes Chapter President, Teresa Fronk

Association for Bridge Construction and Design

Monroe Professional Engineers Society

President, David Jenkinson, PE affiliated societies of the rochester engineering society

President, Mike Ritchie, PE

Terra Rochester Finger Lakes Science & Engineering Fair

Director, Harold R. Clark, PhD

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Celebrating 30 Years!

BE SURE YOU CONTACT YOUR AFFILIATE BEFORE ATTENDING ANY EVENTS. WITH THE COVID19 CRISIS MANY EVENTS ARE BEING CANCELLED, RE-SCHEDULED OR VIRTUAL! WE HOPE EVERYONE STAYS SAFE AND HEALTHY!

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May 2022

2022 RES Annual Meeting | 7 Thursday, May 26, 2022

Time: 5:30 (cash bar & hors d'oeuvres); 6:30 - ~7:30 pm RES Business & Award Presentations Registration is now available online. LIMIT OF 100 ATTENDEES!

Don't miss the Professional Award and Scholarship presentations!

Also learn about future RES Activities, and meet the new officers!

Click here for sponsorship opportunities!

Also in this issue:  RES Annual Meeting

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 Up & Coming Engineers - Meet xxxxx | 16  Campus News | 17

 News From rofessional Firms | 26

 Congratulations to the Scholarship Recipients | 14  Position Openings | 28

~ RES Board of Directors